Older adult exercising as informal caregiver: case report

Abstract

For the World Health Organization (WHO) a person is older when their age ranges from 60 to 80 years, whose period of life requires a social adaptation because of the physical changes generated by age (1). The world population is experiencing a progressive aging, that is, an investment of the population pyramid is developed. The number of older adults in Latin America and the Caribbean will increase from 42 million in 2000 to 100 million in 2025.1